So, after today's pretty terrible update (that banner ikr), it seems that the Onslaught Crew Skill is again, sadly, necessary.
Now, we all know the 500,000 cost is ridiculous, especially for subscribers. That's 1.5 MILLION per character. That's at least half of my entire savings wasted on something I've already had for like a month.
If you hadn't noticed, a few weeks back suddenly the Onslaught Crew Skill wasn't needed to progress past level 600 and on to 700. You could even learn all of the schematics. I did raise this on Twitter with no response.
Well, today it's back to being necessary again. All my 700/700 skills are now 700/600.
HOWEVER, not noticing initially I sent my crew on Bioanalysis missions and now my skill has been reverted to 600/600. I just lost 100 levels. I've raised the issue but responses usually take days.
I advise you to not send your crew on skill missions just yet if you haven't gotten the Onslaught Crew Skill upgrade until something is done about this. I'm worried that if I do buy it, it'll trigger a revert back to 600 on my other skills anyway.
Also, I'm already 700, why not just let those who are over 600 already just have the skill. It was BioWare's error yet we paying subscribers are being punished for it.